This book evaluates Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNI) within the international scientific context. It assesses this research elite’s role and transcendence to recognize the impact and success of Mexico’s research policy.
Based on modern scientific data, this book explores the visceral sensory systems that regulate our internal organs. It details their function at the cellular and molecular levels, covering sensory receptors, information pathways, and processing in the central nervous system.
This textbook and reference for students and scientists helps dispel the fear of statistics. With carefully selected material, examples, and computer solutions, it covers topics from basic to advanced, helping you choose the right analyses and reach sensible conclusions.
The Making of India, 1947-2022
This book captures the people, events, and institutions that have shaped India in its 75 years as an independent country. Each entry is a captivating story with sharp insights, creating a fascinating mosaic of the myriad influences that have made India a liberal democracy.
From private chambers to public galleries, this volume explores how princes displayed their collections. Ten essays examine the art of exhibition across European courts from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century.
Academic endeavors have long been separate from local communities. This book closes the gap by exploring ways academia and the communities it serves can collaborate to create authentic and applied learning environments.
This volume promotes innovation in research methodologies for science, mathematics, health, and environmental education. Chapters present new methods to address global challenges like climate change, exploring queer theory, AI, arts-based studies, and socioscientific approaches.
This textbook presents methods of data analysis and uncertainty estimation, combining classical statistics with modern methods like Monte Carlo modelling. With numerous illustrations and examples using real-world data, it will appeal to students, scientists, and engineers.
Learning Progressions for Maps, Geospatial Technology, and Spatial Thinking
This book is a resource for researching learning progressions for maps, geospatial technology and spatial thinking. Featuring contributions from experts, it offers advice and guidance on research methods, data interpretation, and avoiding common pitfalls.
Research Methodology – Contemporary Practices
New researchers confront challenges in research methodology. This book helps scholars gain command of contemporary practices, describing the simple steps for carrying out research, discussing the tools and techniques needed, and offering valuable tips to avoid common mistakes.
Democracy in the Workplace and at Home
This book explores how democratic concepts like freedom and justice impact our work and home environments. It reveals how a lack of these concepts harms health and well-being, and shows how to create more democratic, healthy, and productive lives.
Beyond Public Engagement
University collections are central to producing knowledge and engaging the public. However, their complexity encompasses a diversity of other issues. This volume discusses the problems, challenges, and opportunities of academic heritage beyond public engagement.
This book focuses on designing error correction techniques for compressed video over wireless channels. It presents adaptive solutions that exploit different importance classes in video data to ensure better quality. A reference for researchers and developers.
The crises of the Anthropocene pressure us to rethink education. This volume responds to these challenges, casting fresh light on contemporary research methodologies fit for the future, exploring post-qualitative inquiry, arts-based methods, and co-design with teachers.
The Theory and Practice of the East Asian Library
Presenting groundbreaking research on the East Asian library, this book covers the progress and conflicts in the field. The issues raised will lead to a rethinking of the field’s role in global interactivity and provide guidance to scholars on East Asian resources.
This title demonstrates how intuition and psychological insights can be used to design relevant models and decision strategies, and describes how goals can be adequately formed and operationalised. It then integrates these processes in an analytical framework for decision-making.
This updated text on Nigerian legal methods is written by scholars in simple, easy-to-understand language. Primarily for first-year law students, its unique chapters on advocacy and examination skills offer more detailed analysis than existing texts.
Digital By-Product Data in Web 2.0
Every online action is recorded as digital by-product data. This hidden information provides a road map to who we are and what we want. This book shows how social scientists can analyze this data to better understand our society and ourselves.
Effectiveness of School Leadership and Management Development in Cameroon
A groundbreaking look at school leadership development. The first of its kind, this book blends practical theory with robust frameworks and actionable recommendations, making it an essential guide for academics and practitioners.
Social Informatics
This state-of-the-art review of 21st century social informatics explores its past, present, and future. Emphasizing the core relationship among people, ICT, and social life, it demonstrates that this research is more necessary now than ever.